A chatbot is an artificial intelligence feature that can be used in websites and different platforms like Facebook or Twitter and that simulates human conversation through voice commands, text or both. The first chatbots appeared in the 1960s and reemerged in 2015- 2016, when mobile phone devices made it easier for companies to see how […]
In this #BreadandNet 2020 session Andreas Gebhard,co-founder and CEO of re:public, a festival for the digital society that was forced to cancel a physical event with more than 1.000 guest speakers around the world because of the COVID’s pandemic. Gebhard explains how they had to change their plans and go online and the challenges they
In this #BreadandNet 2020 session, the co-founder and CEO of re:publica Andreas Gebhard shares his experience since large scale events had to turn their strategy 100% in 2020. How will we meet in the future beyond Covid and borders? Are we facing a golden age of hybrid decentralized global gatherings? Time to reboot the connections
In this #BreadandNet 2020 session, the Tunisian research analyst at the Corporate Accountability Index Afef Abrougui and the Egyptian journalist Wafaa Heikal discuss Corporate Accountability of Telecommunication companies. Abrougui looks into how the policies and practices of telecommunication and technology companies affect digital rights in the region. The speakers also address how organizations in the
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In this #BreadandNet 2020 session, Aya Majzoub from Human Rights Watch and Ayman Mhanna from Samir Kassir Foundation, moderated by Mohamad Najem from SMEX, discuss freedom of speech in Lebanon. There have been no new laws to govern speech in Lebanon, but so many things have changed in freedom of expression. One major change is
In this session ISOC aims to explore and discuss potential partnership opportunities with the community as part of their continuous focus on the MENA region.
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In October 2019 activists and journalists in Lebanon were facing threats, account suspensions, devices being hacked and censorship. That’s why SMEX opened a telephone line for people to reach out for help. In this session of #Breadandnet2020, Operations Manager Lucie Doumanian and Technology Unit Lead Samar Halal talk to Principal Cybersecurity Operations Engineer at MITRE
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The session demystifies online transformation leadership in the civil society by introducing online tools and modules that can be used to understand a given context, organize activist and volunteer groups and bring new mediums to the advancement of civil rights causes in critical contexts; especially where access to the internet may be limited due to
In this #BreadandNet 2020 session Britta Senn from DW Academie presents 5 steps to convert your Face to Face workshop into an interactive online workshop and shares some tools that make digital training easier. The workshop ends with a Q&A session and a discussion of e-training experiences.
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In this #BreadandNet 2020 session, Fahd Batayneh, ICANN’s Stakeholder Engagement Senior Manager (Middle East) explains the domain name system; i.e. top-level domains, domain names, and root-servers. Batayneh shares some statistics on the surge in DNS queries during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Then, he discusses the work undertaken by the domain name industry when it comes to
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